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...Fork of the Big Sandy River, once navigable, now has a single abstract function: Kentucky lies on one side, West Virginia on the other. Splayed out from both banks are noiseless hollows and stubbly, once-farmed bottoms, all in the shadow of Appalachian mountains, which rise dark and gorgeous in every direction. But to the businessmen who brought the railroad through around 1900, wooded slopes and crags were incidental: the capitalists came to burrow and cart away endless tons of coal, which they're still doing today. The Tug Fork Valley, boosters chime, is THE HEART OF THE BILLION...
Artistic rebellions usually end in new orthodoxies every bit as rigid and dogmatic as the old. Harry Jackson, 57, did not revise this pattern, he reversed it. In 1957, at the beginning of a promising career in abstract expressionism, Jack son dropped his dribble stick and picked up the brush and palette of a traditional realist. He left New York City for long visits to Wyoming, where he had once worked as a cowhand...
...called--yes, the "Tcherepnin scale." This makes the music unique and exotic, but provides a basis for comprehension simpler in nature than, say, Ivan Tcherepnin's work. Ivan, whose Le Va et le Vient was premiered successfully two years ago by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, composes in a more abstract, atonal style, which may have been developed while he studied with Kirchner...
DIED, llya Bolotowsky, 74, Russian-born painter and sculptor, who was one of the founders of the American Abstract Artists group; of injuries suffered in an accidental fall in an elevator shaft; in Manhattan. Bolotowsky was an abstractionist who worked with flat primary colors in geometric compositions. In 1936 he created one of the first abstract murals ever commissioned...
...lost by now, don't be afraid to ask for directions, but make sure you pick someone friendly, and try hard not to get into an abstract discussion. If you're still following according to plan, continue another three blocks on Chapel, and a right onto High St, will put you right in the middle of Yale, which is just where you wanted...